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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:59:23 EST
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: alternator problem fixed
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In a message dated 1/22/2005 10:26:22 AM Central Standard Time, 
daveleonard@cox.net writes:

<< And *that's* why you fuse the alt wire (at the battery end). A short in
 > the alt will draw the full amps available from the battery & turn the
 > wire into a fuse if you don't.
 >
 > Charlie
 >
 >
 
 Actually, I am hoping that is what will happen.  I have an 18G fusible link
 going to my alternator.  Just a piece of 18G wire with fireproof insulation
 around it.
 
 Dave Leonard
 
  >>


Could you install a diode in the line so that  no energy from the battery 
could be be used by the alternator, along with a fuse?


Lynn E. Hanover